Petards Hoist Pundits

Updated Jan. 7, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

In his Dec. 24 page-one feature "In War's Early Phase, News Media Showed a Tendency to Misfire" Matthew Rose does an excellent job of pointing out that far too many angst-obsessed political pundits are grossly overpaid, overdue for retirement and best advised to keep their hand-wringing to themselves.

What is amazing to me is they can collectively miss so much of what is truly significant about this war: for example:The U.S. has built the world's most effective and powerful armed forces. And yet what has the U.S....